determination Quotes

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

I don't know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that's why that's Blue Origin's mission.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.